Being Chinese or Being Different:Chinese Undergraduates’Use of Discourses of Chineseness

作     者：Gillian SKYRME 

作者机构：School of HumanitiesMassey UniversityPalmerston North 4442New Zealand 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Education in China》 (中国高等学校学术文摘·教育学（英文）)

年 卷 期：2014年第9卷第3期

页      面：303-326页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：Chinese undergraduate Chinese identity negotiation of identity 

摘      要：Myths about“the Chinese learnerdeveloped from an outsider perspective abound in the Western *** focus of this article,however,is how discourses of Chineseness were used by the Chinese international students themselves who,as undergraduate students in a New Zealand university,were the subjects of my doctoral *** examines the students’notions of Chineseness and how these served in explaining their own narratives,either through identifying with,or distancing themselves from,“Chinesetraits,indicating alternatively a shared experience of the challenges of the new academic culture,or marking themselves out as having a special ability to thrive within *** way they used them,the discourses seemed to serve a purpose of fortifying their sense of identity and *** the end of their study,they were able to reflect carefully on their experiences and discuss new third space identities in which both Chinese and New Zealand values were forging new realities for them.